Eclipse - How to add a project as a Maven dependency to another, instead of adding as a jar?

Question

I have two Maven projects. One should be a dependency to another. Both have pom.xml files. When I search repository, it sees the local project and automatically added.

The pom.xml entry when I add it:

<dependencies>
    <dependency> // for another dependency, an external jar
        <groupId>..</groupId>
        <artifactId>..</artifactId>
        <version>...</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency> // the one for other project which I want to add as dependency
        <groupId>..</groupId>
        <artifactId>..</artifactId>
        <version>..</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

But the references to that project can not see the classes. Is there some specific way to do that, instead of adding from repository?

Answer 1

You set the type of dependency using the <type> tag inside <dependency> tag.

<dependency> 
    <groupId>..</groupId>
    <artifactId>..</artifactId>
    <version>...</version>
    <type>jar OR war OR ejb-client OR test-jar</type>
</dependency>

The default value for type is jar